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Hemebind: A Novel Method For Heme Binding Residue Prediction By Combining Structural And Sequence Information, R. Liu, Jianjun Hu
Hemebind: A Novel Method For Heme Binding Residue Prediction By Combining Structural And Sequence Information, R. Liu, Jianjun Hu
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Background
Accurate prediction of binding residues involved in the interactions between proteins and small ligands is one of the major challenges in structural bioinformatics. Heme is an essential and commonly used ligand that plays critical roles in electron transfer, catalysis, signal transduction and gene expression. Although much effort has been devoted to the development of various generic algorithms for ligand binding site prediction over the last decade, no algorithm has been specifically designed to complement experimental techniques for identification of heme binding residues. Consequently, an urgent need is to develop a computational method for recognizing these important residues.
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